July 05, 2024
Report: Successful Crypto Hacks Double in Size Since 2023
By the middle of 2023, hackers had stolen $657 million in cryptocurrency. One year later, that figure had more than doubled to $1.38 billion, blockchain data firm TRM Labs said in a report issued...
July 05, 2024
Visa and Tangem Unveil Combined Payment Card-Crypto Wallet
Switzerland-based cryptocurrency wallet maker Tangem AG has launched a payments partnership with Visa. The collaboration, announced Friday (July 5), has resulted in a Visa payments card combined with a hardware wallet that lets Tangem users...
July 04, 2024
Crypto’s Three Priorities for 2024: Interoperability, Acceptance, Regulation
Halfway through 2024, and the cryptocurrency and blockchain space finds itself at a critical juncture. It is the same critical juncture, or at least one strikingly similar, that the crypto...
July 03, 2024
SendBlocks Raises $8.2 Million for Blockchain Data Management
Israeli blockchain data management startup SendBlocks has raised $8.2 million in seed funding. The company, which has just emerged from stealth, announced the funding in a news release Wednesday (July...
July 02, 2024
Singapore Bank DBS Forges Stablecoin Custody Pact With Paxos
Singapore’s DBS Bank is reportedly set to begin a custody service for stablecoin reserves. It’s part of a collaboration between the city-state’s largest lender and a local unit of cryptocurrency issuer Paxos...
June 28, 2024
SEC Charges Web3 Firm Consensys With Unregistered Sale of Securities
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) sued Consensys Friday (June 28), charging the blockchain and Web3 software company with engaging in the unregistered offer and sale of securities and with operating as...
June 28, 2024
This Week in Web3: Mt Gox Bitcoin and Crypto’s Future
The 2014 collapse of Mt. Gox served as one of the first, big crypto scandals. Over 100,000 creditors of the digital asset exchange lost over $9.4 billion worth of bitcoin...
June 27, 2024
Stripe and Coinbase Integrate Crypto Services
Stripe and Coinbase have partnered to expand the global adoption of cryptocurrency and provide faster, cheaper financial infrastructure. This collaboration aims to serve businesses and people around the world, Coinbase...
June 27, 2024
TechREG® Chronicle – Regulating Digital Currencies
Dear Readers, Since the introduction of Bitcoin in 2009, blockchain and aspects of crypto technology have been on a roller-coaster ride, not only in terms of their monetary value, but...
Nine in 10 of the world’s central banks are pursuing digital currency projects, but private sector expertise and buy-in will be pivotal to their success. In this month’s “Blockchain Payments Tracker®,” a collaboration with Algorand, Anish Jain, CEO of WadzPay, explains how blockchain’s interoperability with legacy banking systems is the key to its adoption.